by Gloria | Jul 30, 2023 | Accessibility, living well
I rarely drive. My life is structured so that I generally don’t need to. BUT Like so many others, I still have a driver’s license (with the designation that I use an assistive device) and I’ve wanted to keep it as long as I could....
by Gloria | Feb 3, 2021 | Accessibility, living well, Your Life
I have tried to write this blog for a very long time and have kept getting pulled in so many directions about what might be helpful to someone seeing or hearing it. The starting idea was write about “How do we know when to start using a wheelchair”....
by Gloria | Dec 9, 2018 | health, living well, Your Life
I recently had a conversation with a family member about “health issues” and we discussed peoples’ (over ?) reliance on doctors and medications for treating everything. And it led me to think honestly about what I have found over 40 years with a serious, progressive,...
by Gloria | Jan 28, 2018 | living well, Renovation, Your Home, Your Life
As we strive to make our environments more accessible and easier to use, we have found that careful planning can help to create solutions that are not just fully workable but also beautiful. I don’t think that I am unique in wanting to live in the home that does not...
by Gloria | Oct 4, 2017 | Accessibility, Adventures, living well, Your World
While I had traveled extensively in the United States, I had never gone outside of our borders since becoming wheelchair dependent. But, in August my husband and I set out on our most ambitious trip ever. Three weeks in Europe! Our trip included time in Estonia,...
by Gloria | Jun 24, 2017 | Accessibility, community, living well
Throughout our lives all of us have probably had times when we wanted to be more or less anonymous and more or less memorable. Things have been said that individuals with disabilities are often ignored or treated as “invisible”. My experience has been quite the...